On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Then you don't have to worry about using some non-portable > GNU extension to cut in your scripts.
This is sensible. > In spite of all of that, the existing behavior (of not honoring > the user-specified field/column-number ordering) is non-intuitive > enough that I'd consider a patch adding an option to make cut > provide the more sensible behavior. It's still not intuitive if the user would need to know to specify "-o". I think we can't fix the non-intuitiveness by adding an extra option. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
